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Historical development-rollastheballgot

Thehighly complicatedpinballis actually a variation of the game bagatelle.Bagatelleis thegame of marbles,which had to
besunkin holeswith different values.ThefirstBagatellegamesalready existedin Greek cultureand thenre-emergedina number of Europeanroyal housesmiddle of the 17thCentury.

The bigthreemanufacturersof the laterPinballindustrieBALLY,WILLIAMSGOTTLIEBandthe boom ofBagatellegamesbegan in 1871.

To getmoreaction game that the game introduced the Bumper,whichmeans of contactpointsscoredby touching theball.ChicagoCoin'salsobeenwith theBuckaroo(15Bumperat this timebefore 1940alreadyon the market).

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1947 " the time had come , the GOTTLIEB engineer Harry Maps invented more or less by chance the mobile pinball - those little oval , surrounded by a rubber ring plastic parts, which got its name
from the people in Germany and also in France.

The Flipper idea came from a bumper, which
was driven by chance , without which the ball activated the contact.
The first devices that Flipper was still moving at the same time , now the most common use is the separate control of the left and right flipper finger with the left and right push buttons.

Very modern
electronic devices can even do it in the particular game formations inversieren the Flipper (function upside down) and left and right to swap .In the 50's the Backglasses (flipper discs ) were
animated with a dancing ballerina , a bucking horse or the like.Here was GOTTLIEB the number 1 in the industry.

In 1954, super-
jumbo on the market , the first pinball machine with 4 counters which 4 games could be measured at the same time - until then there was only 1-man units .Beginning of 1960, the era of the lights finally went over and
diemechanischen counters took over the scoring .

Now, many features have been invented , such as the

Drop targets ( retractable goals )The Spinner (horizontal rotating target )Open Gate features (after meeting
a certain goal , a goal and the ball was open again to the ball deduction roll back )Zipper Flipper ( Flipper joined )Multiball (several balls at the same time came into play )Up Mail ( cylinder between the flippers ,
which prevented the departure of the ball )Bonus conductor ( points were collected and added to the end of the ball
)

and much more.From the 70's there was again a
significant change , the usual short 5 cm short flippers were replaced by 7.5 cm long flippers.

In 1976, the era of
electromechanical counters came to an end and there came the electronic meters and thus sound, music and more vertebrae, and sound into play.In the late 80 - ies then the electronic meters have been replaced by
multi-function displays ( dot matrix ) .The last
pinball, which were built had already installed screens and mirror technology and 2001, the last major pinball manufacturer WILLIAMS ceasing production .